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Plaintiff hid prompts in court filings, hoping AI was calling the shots

Connecticut Judge Walter Spader Jr. sanctioned a plaintiff for using prompt-injection in electronic court filings, marking a first in a decision issued August 6, 2026. The judge found text formatted to be invisible to humans but readable by software, apparently intended to influence AI systems reviewing the filings.

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In a first, Connecticut judge Walter Spader Jr. issued a decision [PDF] sanctioning a plaintiff for "use of prompt-injection" in their electronic filings. [via Ars Technica]

"The Court identified text that had been formatted to be invisible to a human reader while remaining fully legible to any software that reads the document's text," Spader wrote. — Read the rest

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